The Jozef Stefan Institute (IJS), Slovenia's prime scientific institution, founded a new research centre together with the Croatian Rudjer Boskovic Institute, head of the IJS Jadran Lenarcic said on Tuesday.
After signing the agreement, Lenarcic explained that Slovenia was pushed to the margin of the common European research area and therefore such cooperation was vital.
He added that the newly founded centre would be a competent counterweight to the Central European research centres, and explained this was not the first partnership with a kin foreign institution for the IJS.
Last year the IJS launched cooperation with the Vienna-based Joanneum Research institute. Unlike the Slovenian and Croatian institutes, that institute is more economy-oriented, while the other two cover a broader field of research
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